PDF Process book

Process Book

I'm having a hard time printing it out because my file is so big

PDF Process Book

Process Book

new blog revamped

I worked with a new theme and played with the html to that the page works much more like I intended. I mostly wanted more of an emphasis on the tags, a fixed sidebar, and to get rid of timestamps on posts.

highpeaksguide.tumblr.com

Screen images

These are the shapes that I will be burning into my screen and printing over some parts of the shirts that I showed you all on Monday. I didn't have a chance to get to the print lab tonight due to homework overload and a terrible migraine. I'm also waiting to buy two t-shirt sized screens from Darek so I will end up using those to burn these images on as well as a few others. They're formatted on 11x17 sheets but will be cut out into separate shapes before I burn them into the screen. They're very large shapes too, I know they'll look very interesting once they're printed!

Unfortunately, I don't think that my stamp will be here in time for my evaluation. But I ordered a 2x3 inch rubber stamp with my official logo on it. I plan to stamp the sleeves of the t-shirts and either under the size tag or on the bottom waist part of the shirt.

finalities

Tiffany asks that we look at

Saul Bass: The Evolution of an Artist
Simon Arms, 2 July 2012 at noupe,

and

A Cut-Down History of Collage
Lauren Wallach, 15 November 2012, at artspace

There's also the title sequence to It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963).

More Photos

I took a few more photos this weekend. I wanted to take more, but finals got in the way and made me unable to spend time at the studio.

Reading for tomorrow??

Can everyone read this for tomorrow? It's a real easy article  there's not much thinking you have to do for it

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/art-of-the-road-trip-mark-dions-souvenirs/?_r=0

graphs

still working on the graphs. I got rid of the inner/outer circles and just have one circle that goes to 1440 because the highest page that uses habit is 1391 (in vol 2 but assuming they're one continuous book). The sizes of the dots represent different things: the smallest is when it's used in a header/footer and not in the actual text, the medium dots are when it's just used in the text, and the larger dots are when there's two or more uses of habit on one page. I've started trying to go through the uses of habit in the book and trying to find out if any relate to one of my graphs five habits and then giving them the same colors or just grouping the uses into five categories and giving them their own colors but it's extremely time consuming so I think that I'll have to finish that during winter break.

Online Slide Guide

I'm working on translating my last book into a tumblr blog. Check it out!

Photography

As suggested at my evaluation I took a bunch of photos of my shoe piles. I think out of everything I've done this semester I like these photos the best. I still need to get some kind of better lighting and edit the ones that I have.

So I went to the print lab.. and 6 hours later.

I printed a bunch of patches, I used old cotton t-shirts and printed the patches in black ink and cut them out carefully into 1.5 in x 1.75 in. squares. They're the perfect size for beanies and strap back hats. My plan is to sell these hats and use that money to buy new ink, photo emulsion, and shirts!
Beanies are $14.
Strap back hats are $25.
Patches are $1 each. I applied them onto the beanies and strap backs with a very high quality iron-on glue. It works great and the patches stay on very well.

Also, here is where I left off while working on my official logo. I finished shading it in, scanned it in, brought it into photoshop and have been adjusting and moving some of the letterforms around on Illustrator after converting it to a vector:

readings / viewings, Whitney's presentation

So i will talk a bit about branding, but i've added a couple things about Christien Meindertsma's work. She's been able to do what i've been trying to do on a much larger scale and is much better at talking about it! you don't have to read/watch it all but it's good stuff if you do.

branding —
Adrian Shaughnessy. Why designers should give branding back its soul
creativeblog, October 29, 2013

Christien Meindertsma —
Christien Meindertsma: Act Local
dwell. interview. August 2, 2012

Design for a Living World - Christien Meindertsma
YouTube, uploaded June 5, 2009

Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn
TED Talk (YouTube), September 20, 2010

Hashtag Reading

The Beginners Guide to Hashtags.

"#Hashtag" with Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake

Website, process book.

darekbittner.com

I mostly worked on my website this weekend. I plan on taking all my scanned material to make a HPPH catalogue. I also want to incorporate an interactive way to read my most recent book online. That will probably be a winter break project.

still combining graphs and text

I was sick all vacation so I didn't get to do as much work as I wanted to but I used an image I found online that divides the circle up into 360 degrees. My original graphs have an inner circle for the morning and the outer is the evening, so I used an inner circle for pages 1-360 of the book and an outer circle for pages 361-720. The dots I placed represent the page number William James used habit, and also where on the page it appeared - I did volume 1 and 2 separately and then put them together.

after that you can stay on...

this came my way, thought I'd share.

All the time my ideal of teaching has been to argue with people on behalf of the idea that they are responsible for their own activities, that they are really, in a sense, the question, that ultimately they are what it is they have to contribute. The most critical part of that is for them to begin developing the ability to assign their own tasks and make their own criticism in direct relation to their own needs and not in light of some abstract criteria. Because once you learn how to make your own assignments instead of relying on someone else, then you have learned the only thing you really need to get out of school, that is, you’ve learned how to learn. You’ve become your own teacher. After that you can stay on — for the facilities, the context, the dialogue, the colleagueship, the structure, and so forth — but you’ll already be on your own.

from —
“Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees: Conversations With Robert Irwin”

I am sympathetic to this view, even for design where work is frequently — but not always — for a client.
Sometimes, all one needs is a single idea or prompt, to get the thing going. And then you're off!

More here.

form and function, reading for Monday

Here are links to two think-pieces that Caroline would like us to consider.
We recognize it's on short notice, so if it appears we're not ready tomorrow (Monday), we'll put this back to Wednesday.

They are

Form Follows Function, Right? Not So Fast
by Tom Dair, FastCompany
www.fastcompany.com/1282208/form-follows-function-right-not-so-fast

and

Function is Dead – Long Live Function
Gary Dickson
www.graphic-design.com/DTG/dickson/form_follows_function.html

Hope everyone's restored, and ready for our last two weeks!

#Betweenyouandi in Woburn & Burlington

Woburn mall parking lot:

Burlington mall parking lot:

style/ possible logo

graphs and text

playing around with incorporating the text and graphs together

Hello everyone! The article I will be discussing on Monday is Coding is an Art by Amy Whitaker.

For even more information about this subject, you can read this:
Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

I pray you all have a great weekend! Try not to stress, it's almost Thanksgiving break!

Raven Sketches

The people want more!

Still producing. I need to figure out things with these book covers, some are easily designed others not so much. But I thought I would put up what ever I had even if it's not finished.
Gods Food and The Sweet Porridge aren't finished.

please read for monday, november 25

http://adage.com/article/adagestat/marketers-tap-power-habit/234085/

I'll bring in hard copies to class tomorrow. I originally wanted to use a section of 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg but in order to understand any of it you really need to read the full chapters which are too long so I chose an interview with him instead focusing on marketing and how they target your habits.

some photos from my show

wednesday, and an observation

The observation, first: Whitney, on Monday —
That we ask ourselves what we want to get out of, learn from, our work.
Does it lead to acquisition of new skills? a changed/broadened framework in which we operate?
Does it help us move from point A to point B?

One way of thinking about work, is that it is construction of a scaffold, that then falls away, to yield new work, that itself is a scaffold that falls away, and so on.

For Wednesday —
Read Darek's text — Richard Hamilton on Di(e)ter Rot(h), 1961 — and Caitlin's URL, Hyperbolic Space / Crochet Models at the Institute for Figuring. There is also the IFF's Magaret Wertheim her Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane : An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina, here.

Regarding mathematics, mathematical modeling and 3D printing, which we discussed on Monday, take a look at the projects at Neri Oxman's website. Oxman was one of the presenters at the Smart Clothes conference at the Radcliffe Institute, last week. For a report on that conference, see Samantha Wuestman's Oracle Road Report No. 3, The Oracle Goes to Radcliffe.

Reviews Wednesday and Thursday evening; Darek's opening Wednesday at 5:00pm.

Mood Board-ish

Hello! I have been gathering different types of photos of inspiration and things my hats mimic or that i want to mimic. I don't think it counts for anything just figured I'd share. My next big thing is learning different patterns for dream catchers.

http://www.pinterest.com/caitxd/spirals/

New Supplies!

Forgetting everything in NH isn't all that bad. I have all new materials and I'm excited to see what I will create when I just turn off my brain and crank them out.

Reading for Wednesday (just the first link)

At first I was going to have you guys read a section from The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. It made sense because it talks about how fibonacci's sequence can be used to keep type and and the over all design proportionate. However I just wasn't thrilled by it. So here's what I picked instead:

http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html

Also there's an interview with the artist, but it's just here incase someone gets really into it and wants more.

http://www.theiff.org/lectures/05a.html



Also I'm not sure if anyone likes the show Criminal Minds but there is an episode where the bad guy uses fibonacci sequence in a kidnapping. I thought that was funny

Shoe Drawings Part 2

I tried to do some more drawings with the shoe parts. I had to scan them in as text instead of black and white since the black and white drawings were very, very fine and I did not trust my extraction abilities:

I then took these drawings and made some piece with them. I think they're pretty interesting, but I'm not sure if this is the right direction.